JOE VECCHIO (ELDER NERD)

I was born in a log cabin that I built with my own hands. I never knew my mother, as she died two years before I was born. Okay, semi seriously. I’ve been attending conventions on and off since the mid 1970s, having been to some of the first Star Trek conventions in New York. I have a wide variety of interests, in the entertainment/fantasy industry and more mundane things. I’ve helped found two anime clubs, one anime convention and one short-lived sci-fi convention, and I feel I can have a reasonably intelligent conversation on mundane topics as well, and I’m not one to make stuff up if I don’t know the answer to a question. As a GM, my philosophy is very simple: “If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right!” I view all rules as suggestions, to be discarded if it hurts the player or the game as a whole. And I dislike players who use the letter of the rules to get around the spirit of the rules in order to make their character more powerful. The TTRP game I’m concentrating on now is called Harnmaster, a very detailed game system designed for long-term roleplay and character development. I run an online campaign on Saturdays using Roll20 and Discord. I’m glad to answer any questions about the game world and game system provided my alien overlords permit it.